Principal Frontend Engineer

About the Position

At ClickUp, we’re not just building software. We’re architecting the future of work! We’re seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the long-term technical vision for frontend engineering at ClickUp, leading architectural strategy across major product surfaces and solving company-wide frontend challenges.

Responsibilities9

• Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments
• Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular 2+ and React that support rapid product development
• Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity
• Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems
• Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization
• Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems
• Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards
• Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment and product partnership

Requirements9

• 10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications
• Expert-level experience with Angular 2+, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems
• Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users
• Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture
• Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas
• Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels
• Strong mentoring background and passion for building high-performing engineering organizations
• Experience with testing infrastructure and ability to define testing strategies for large scale features change changes.